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The U.S. Census released new population and housing units estimates for cities today. Phoenix added more residents between July 2017 and July 2018 than any city in the country.
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Government's pro-sprawl and anti-density policies often create problems that justify more of the same.
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Mahbubur Meenar of Rowan University writes about a recent article he co-authored in the Journal of Planning Education and Research
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It's a popularity contest, sure, but it's our popularity contest.
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The Urban Nexus is an approach to sustainability that seeks to integrate sectors and silos int he design and development process.
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The implementation of 5G Internet infrastructure raises fundamental questions about how private companies operate in the public realm. Don't expect easy answers.
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The study of gentrification took center stage at the recent conference of the Urban Affairs Association. It's up to planners to put all of that research to good use.
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After 12 days of walking the Portuguese Camino, the importance of many urban planning and development debates—from balanced growth to banning cars—became abundantly clear.
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"Ghost apartments" (empty apartments owned by rich foreign investors) have gotten a great deal of media coverage. But how common are they?
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An unscientific dip into Planetizen traffic data for the first three months of 2019 reveals the planning stories readers couldn't care less about.
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Inclusivity requirements should be used with caution. Increasing the portion of below-market housing units tends to reduce total housing production, particularly moderate-priced homes.
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Could cities harness the power of play to build more healthy, resilient, and equitable communities, if only we had the words for it?
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Capital City casts planners as lackeys, serving the forces of capitalism.
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Last week, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a plan to replace Toronto's subway expansion plans with a vision of his own. Reactions have been pouring in ever since.
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With so many applications and intersections, planning can be hard to define. Planetizen Managing Editor James Brasuell is in San Francisco searching for meaning.
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Defenders of suburban expansion argue that government should build more roads in order to open up more land for housing. What's wrong with that argument?
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At the beginning of 2017, few people in the United States could have predicted the quick rise to prominence of dockless bike share companies. Even fewer could have predicted what would happen next.
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Kin, a new partnership between the real estate company Tishman Speyer and the co-living company Common, bets that residents will accept smaller living spaces in exchange for a community borne out of in-house sharing-economy amenities.
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While 2019 doesn’t scream smart city revolution, we are seeing signs of significant smart city evolution.
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In Order Without Design, Alain Bertaud takes a middle position between consistent supporters of suburbia and sprawl critics.
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In the age of new technology, is it better to ask for forgiveness, or beg for permission? Austin Brown and Kelly Fleming of UC Davis explore why companies have taken this approach and how policymakers and business leaders can improve the situation.
